The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

--George Bernard Shaw

How To Start a Company

How To Run A Company

How To Manage A Board of Directors

How to Close a Sale

On Venture Capitalists

The Expectations Game

Act on Facts, Not Faith

What's wrong with American corporate structure --and how to fix it

On Profit Maximization as the Social Responsibility of Business

The Role of Marketing in a Start-Up

Move over, CEO: Here Come the Directors

How Cisco's CEO Works the Crowds

The Fear Factor

To Partner or Not To Partner, That is The Question

The Hard Job of Interviewing

Meet Jason Fried

The only magazine I have ever read cover to cover

The mathematics of viral marketing

Looking for a really cool job?

Smart people should work in start-ups

9 women cannot make a baby in 1 month

Complacency stumps innovation

Paul Graham on start-ups

James Surowiecki on Boards of Directors

Assembling the team

Pack your products and writings in snack sizes

Are ideas or execution the limiting step of progress

Zero to 1 billion in 4 years or less

On the valuation of private company securities

Why VCs Block Good Exits: Their 80% Failure Rate Forces Them to Swing for the Fence

If you can forecast revenues, you are not innovating enough

Start-up executives need to understand their product

Getting funded means getting fired

How not to write a resume and cover letter, how to get hired (and how not to), and how to screen job candidates

A loophole in stockholder rights every entrepreneur must be aware of

I come from a family of scientists and entrepreneurs. My great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, Hayum Moos, was Albert Einstein's great-great-grandfather. My grandfather, Ernst Moos, had to quit medical school in Berlin due to Nazi oppression and fled to Argentina, where he started two small companies as a penniless Jewish refugee. My uncle Ron Baecker is the founder of several companies, and Professor of Computer Science, Bell Universities Laboratories Chair in Human-Computer Interaction, and founder and Chief Scientist of the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto, was named a Pioneer of Computer Graphics by ACM SIGGRAPH, has been elected to the CHI Academy by ACM SIGCHI, and has been given the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award. My mother, Silvia Moos, is the founder of Centralab, Argentina's most important clinical chemistry lab and a state of the art automated facility, and Klik, Argentina's first mental fitness center. My Dad started the Argentina offices of Heidrick & Struggles and currently heads Korn Ferry South South America.

My own first entrepreneurial venture was making and selling ornamental candles with my brothers in the neighborhood, when we were all children --although my brother Nico was the spirit principally behind the candle factory. It got a little more serious in college, designing, making and selling T-shirts and sweatshirts with the university name and logo; we did very well until both partners left the country to pursue scientific studies, sacrificing the venture to science. In grad school, I took a break from earthly profits and founded the Caltech Filmmaking Club, the Caltech Kiteboard Club, the CNS Journal Club (also with Gabriel Kreiman) and the Da Vinci Club (with Dan Lieberman), all of which got funded and exist to this day. It was during this time that I started writing up some of my first inventions. Initially, I thought established companies such as Google would soon catch up to my ideas, so I did nothing. When several years passed and they had still not come up with any of my inventions, I decided to start Adapt. I have not stopped since. Read The Invention Factory's blog for up to date news on my latest ventures.

Other resources for entrepreneurs:

Guy Kawasaki's Blog on Entrepreneurship

Bnoopy: Joe Kraus' blog on entrepreneurship, explaining why there's never been a better time to be an entrepreneur

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